Poltroon was a successful event

Eventing

Eventing is an equestrian event comprising dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. This event has its roots in a comprehensive cavalry test requiring mastery of several types of riding...

 horse ridden by American rider Torrance Watkins

Torrance Watkins

Torrance Watkins is an American event rider who has successfully competed internationally.-Early years:Her family was full of horsemen, many of them foxhunters, and she began riding to the hounds at the age of four...

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• Color: pinto
  Pinto
  -General:*Conspiracy of the Pintos, a rebellion against Portuguese rule in Goa, India in 1787*Ford Pinto , a subcompact car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company for the North American market...
  
  
• Height: 15.1 hh
• Sex: mare
  Mare (horse)
  A mare is an adult female horse or other equine.In most cases, a mare is a female horse over the age of three, and a filly is a female horse age three and younger. However, in Thoroughbred horse racing, a mare is defined as a female horse more than four years old; in harness racing a mare is a...
  
  
• Rider: Torrance Watkins
  Torrance Watkins
  Torrance Watkins is an American event rider who has successfully competed internationally.-Early years:Her family was full of horsemen, many of them foxhunters, and she began riding to the hounds at the age of four...
  
  
• Breeder: Susie Beckman
• Owner: The Marra Family

Beckman, of Cincinnati, Ohio

Ohio

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, bred her pinto pony mare, Frosty, to the Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

 stallion Hopper's Pride.

Despite her small size, Poltroon was awarded the individual bronze medal at the 1980 alternate Olympic Games at Fontainebleau

Fontainebleau

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, France, finishing with a score of 75.00 penalty points. This made her rider the first woman to win an Olympic medal in the sport. Additionally, the mare won the 1980 Modified Advanced 3-Day at the Rolex Kentucky Three Day

Rolex Kentucky Three Day

The Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event is an eventing competition held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky. The Rolex Kentucky is a CCI**** eventing competition, and the only four-star show in the Western Hemisphere. Four stars is the highest level of competition, the same level of...

, and finished second at the Badminton Horse Trials

Badminton Horse Trials

The Badminton Horse Trials is a three-day event, one of only six annual Concours Complet International Four Star **** events as classified by the Fédération Équestre Internationale , which takes place in April or May each year in the park of Badminton House, the seat of the Dukes of Beaufort in...

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